Purpose: To help the children understand that as we grow older, we change; and we need to watch how we change.

Materials: A candle and several sheets of paper. On one piece of paper, write a word like Hello.

Lesson: A piece of paper is a very interesting object. You can fold it and it becomes a toy airplane that can fly. (Do so.) If you touch it to a flame, it turns into smoke and black ashes. (Do so, carefully. You might want a metal container nearby into which you can drop the paper.) You can write or print or draw on it and it becomes a source of communication. (Show them your word paper.)

In life, we are like a piece of paper. There are forces all ar…